What’s behind Trump’s Bud Light rehabilitation effort?

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Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney started a firestorm of controversy in April of last year by partnering with Bud Light in a short video on Instagram. The company sent a can of its beer with Mulvaney’s face and the words “cheers to 365 days of womanhood.”

But Mulvaney is not a woman. He is biologically a man. Unsurprisingly, the reaction was swift and severe. Ten months later, Bud Light is still not back to where it once was, as the unassuming beer of regular, hard-working Americans. But former President Donald Trump wants to change that. 

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